Rainer Born
Johannes Kepler University of Linz
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Journal of organisational transformation and social change | 2015
Eva Gatarik; Rainer Born
Among the serious concerns raised by the socioeconomic development of the twenty-first century is the question of how regional development, especially in economically weak areas, can be supported in such a way as to bring about flexibility and innovation, matters causally associated with the long-term viability and evolution of living systems. This contribution employs research results derived from the management of common-pool resources (commons) to reconstruct the ways and means by which knowledge in robust and enduring organizations of commons may support the regional development of ecosystems of innovation, that is, systems of distributed knowledge featuring polycentric administration and decision mechanisms that mutually facilitate flexible and innovative solutions. All these matters are addressed by the application of the language-information-reality (LIR) framework and its extensions. The use of this framework of analysis helps to broaden awareness and understand where common sense is a synergistic consideration, and where an enhancement of our background knowledge is necessary.
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies and Data-driven Business | 2015
Eva Gatarik; Rainer Born; Viktor Kulhavý
Pointing out flaws and errors can be a risky pastime for employees, when the information therein conflicts with rules, practices and theories held dear by management. However, skilful performance is not about strictly adhering to established practice when seeking ways out of problem situations. Instead, it is shown that skilful performance arises out of shared meaning rather than accuracy. Particularly in the event of uncertainty, equivocation and doubt, people in organizations should not just follow given rules, practices and theories, but jointly classify, interpret and transform observed data into new knowledge that feeds back, so that subsequent action and its justification can tap into the prevailing business climate, reduce ambiguity, and offer more exciting prospects. A systemic approach is applied to generalize the construction, processing and justification of knowledge to establish meaning within an organization in order to sustainably improve its performance. Finally, the presuppositions for an appropriate actualization of this approach within an organization are discussed.
Human Affairs | 2017
Rainer Born; Eva Gatarik
Abstract Rule systems are used every day to share experience, pre-existing knowledge, beliefs and ethical rules, and to provide instructions for future action. This article expands and builds upon an approach pioneered by Julius M. Moravcsik to argue that ethics cannot be completely codified into a rigid set of rules, because any such set lacks a misapplication-correcting sensibility. Thus, an ethics that is transferred purely by means of a rule-set is incomplete and thus cannot be used reliably to guide future action. The balancing sensibility is formed out of pre-existing expert knowledge and takes account of the limitations of rule-sets in specific contexts. Moravcsik’s approach is then expanded by incorporating it into a holistic framework for the analysis, guidance and development of actions to be taken to support the emergence, selection and implementation of solutions for a sustainable future. This approach has profound implications for managers and organisers in new or critical situations.
international joint conference on knowledge discovery knowledge engineering and knowledge management | 2015
Eva Gatarik; Viktor Kulhavy; Rainer Born
Pointing out flaws and errors can be a risky pastime for those employees, whose information conflicts with theories and rules held dear by management. However, effective performance does not consist in strictly adhering to established rules. Instead, it is driven by a continuous search for meaning within organizational environments, which are, in turn, enacted upon emerging and redrafted meaning. Meaning based upon lived and reflected experience provides a corrective use of rules and, hence, more appropriate, effective results. Effective performance arises out of plausibility rather than accuracy. In the event of uncertainty, equivocation and doubt, people in organizations claiming resilience should jointly classify and interpret observed data into new knowledge so that subsequent action can tap into the prevailing business climate, reduce ambiguity, and offer more exciting prospects. A framework is introduced and applied to justify an organizational epistemology to assist the construction, processing and justification of meaning within organizations.
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies and Data-driven Business | 2015
Eva Gatarik; Rainer Born; Viktor Kulhavý
Whereas we know a great deal about what characterizes organizational knowledge and what forms it can -- or even should -- take, we know significantly less about how that knowledge is -- and should be -- enacted or built up in skilful performance in and by organizations. This research is based on the extension of classical approaches to formal semantics especially into situation semantics in the LIR (Language -- Information -- Reality) model-theoretic systemic framework of analysis. The purpose of this research is to methodologically identify and describe the enactment of knowledge in skilful performance in and by organizations to support the integration both of data-driven and user-driven approaches to cognitive computing.
Archive | 2012
Eva Gatarik; Rainer Born
„Nicht alles, was nicht glanzt, ist kein Gold!“ Mit dieser Abwandlung eines Gedankens von John R. R. Tolkien aus seinem Gedicht „All That is Gold Does Not Glitter“ mochten wir darauf aufmerksam machen, dass die Chance jeder Krise nicht nur darin besteht, „solche“ neuen Losungen zu finden, die den Teufel mitunter mit Belzebub auszutreiben versuchen, sondern dass es eben darum geht, die Augen fur das zu offnen, was uns „glanzlos“ die ganze Zeit uber geholfen hat, Go(e)ld zu erzeugen. Konkret werden wir uns mit der Kreativitat von Menschen bzw. deren kreativem Umgang mit Regeln, Routinen, Heuristiken, Konzepten und Prinzipien – also mit „Wissen“ – beschaftigen, welches als glanzloses Gold die Grundlage fur das Geld in der Wirtschaft war. Worauf wir hinaus wollen, ist zu zeigen, dass nicht das „glanzvolle“ und exakte Beachten und Befolgen von (okonomischen) Regeln und Prinzipien ausschlaggebend ist, was zum (wirtschaftlichen) Erfolg fuhrt, sondern dass ein diskreter und korrigibler Umgang mit Regeln erforderlich und entscheidend ist, wofur im Ubrigen Erfahrung und das darauf aufbauende gefuhlte/gefuhlsmasige Verstandnis der Anwendungsgrenzen von (theoretischen) Konzepten, (okonomischen) Ideologien bzw.
Archive | 2012
Eva Gatarik; Rainer Born
Zum Einstieg (in den Ausstieg bzw. Aufstieg in die Reflexion) benutzen noch einmal den uns bereits aus dem Kapitel 4 bekannten Witz: Zwei Vertreter der Hochreligionen dieser Erde streiten heftig um den jeweiligen „una sancta“ Anspruch, namlich darum, in Besitz der allein seligmachenden gottlichen Wahrheit zu sein. Schlieslich meint der Eine – auserst tolerant und gonnerhaft – zum Anderen: „Lassen Sie uns doch unseren Streit beenden! Wir dienen doch beide demselben Herren! Sie auf Ihre Weise und ich auf Seine!
Archive | 2012
Eva Gatarik; Rainer Born
Wir gehen zunachst von einem Beispiel bzw. einer Tatsache aus, welche gewissermasen alle Menschen gelegentlich betrifft: mangelnde Gesundheit und die Abhangigkeit von Arzten, die uns in solchen Fallen „sagen“, „was fur uns jeweils gut ist“! D.h. wir verlassen uns auf Gedeih und Verderb auf – wir sagen es einmal vorsichtig – die „Intuition“ der Arzte. Warum aber sprechen wir in diesem Fall uberhaupt von einer Intuition (der Arzte) und nicht von (deren) „an-studiertem“ Wissen?
Archive | 2012
Eva Gatarik; Rainer Born
Um ein „Gefuhl“ fur die Notwendigkeit der Uberwindung von kognitiven Grenzen (der Entscheidungsfindung) im Wissensmanagement zu entwickeln, indem man – in Entsprechung der aktuellen neurobiologischen und psychologischen Forschungen von Antonio R. Damasio bzw. Gerd Gigerenzer – die Rolle von Emotionen und Gefuhlen in Entscheidungsprozessen beachtet und auf diese Weise „gute“ und (bezuglich der Zeit und Information) „effiziente“ Losungen von „neuen/unvertrauten Problemen“ erzeugt (was gleichzeitig eine essentielle und zu einem nachhaltigen Unternehmenserfolg bzw.
Archive | 2012
Eva Gatarik; Rainer Born
In Kapitel 1 sind wir von (den Ursachen) der derzeitigen Finanzmarktkrise ausgegangen und haben diesbezuglich am sog. „Buffel-Beispiel“ die Problematik von „echter“ Expertise illustriert/angesprochen. In Erweiterung dieser Gedanken behandeln wir nun ein Beispiel „uber die chilenischen Kartoffeln“ von Arie de Geus, in dem es um die Notwendigkeit geht, die „Komplexitat der Realitat“ zu berucksichtigen und u.U.